Hello March! I don’t know in your part of the world, but in mine, March started with an awful amount of snow from storm Emma and the Beast from the East. I am quick to complain about snow, but in fairness, there was only about 2 cm where I live. Not even enough to sustain a snow fight.

Can there be a way to connect with someone, here and now, despite a language barrier? For Steven Bird and Robyn Perry, founders of the Treasure Language Storytelling (TLS) initiative, storytelling in original languages is a possible answer.

Hello February! This year, where I live, the winter is being very… mathematical. Grey, rainy and warm-ish on even days, and clear and cold on odd days. In any case, any day is a good day to read and learn, so here is my monthly list:

To conclude our short series on basic grammar, let’s have a quick look at what makes a text. As usual, we take the view that a greater understanding of the ways a language works prepares us to improve our fluency.

In my free time I volunteer for an online media called Global Voices. It’s a network of journalists, writers, bloggers, translators, human rights and free speech advocates who write and translate about what happens in the world, especially what we rarely hear about in the mainstream media.